Vehicles and Equipment
The Brigade's fleet of vehicles primarily consists of Dennis Sabre Class-B Water Ladder Appliances (WrL) and more recently Scania Class-B WrL's with Dennis RS series and Dennis SS series WrL's still on the run in some districts, water tankers and Dennis and Scania turntable ladder vehicles, aerial platforms and emergency tenders. Specialist vehicles such as foam tenders for assisting the Airport Fire & Rescue Service with aircraft fires & more recently tunnel response vehicles to attend incidents in the Dublin Port Tunnel are also in the fleet. Newer vehicles are based on Scania Chassis, with the marine emergency response unit, command and control unit, an emergency tender and turntable ladder to be the first on this chassis in Dublin. New Scania chassis emergency tenders come pre-equipped with a hiab crane on the tailgate.
Frontline vehicles are equipped with modern firefighting and rescue equipment, including 10.5 metre and 13.5 metre ladders, winches, motorised hosereels, foam inductors, cutting and spreading equipment and earthing equipment (for grounding overhead tram lines).
The majority of the Brigade's ambulances are based on the Ford Transit chassis, with bodywork by Wilker Coachbuilders. Older models (mainly reserve vehicles now in support roles) had Wilker's "Lunar" bodywork, one frontline ambulance and the majority of reserves have "Voyager" bodies while the majority of the frontline fleet have new CEN compliant bodywork. New ambulances are now built on Mercedes Sprinter Chassis with CEN compliant bodywork by Wilker Coachbuilders.
All new District Officer's vehicles are Volkswagen Caravelle MPVs designed to act as mobile command units. These vehicles are gradually replacing the older fleet of Renault Espace MPVs and Ford Mondeos.
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